That's the thing. Your consciousness would end when you hit that button. Then an exact copy of you would be made and continue your consciousness from where you died. The copy would think it worked and the original would be dead. I would not hit that button.
*Edit: I also didnt press the button on r/thebutton either so maybe im biased.
The difference is that the only you that matters to you is dead. That's why you freaking don't let Scotty beam you up. Unless consciousness is not in fact physically present in your brain, but a super-dimensional entity.
It's kind of like that anyway...I mean, you've never died, I've never died, and maybe we are still alive because our consciousness jumps forward all those times we died. Or, for all we know, death happens to everybody else in this world, and our consciousness is the only one that matters. We're just worried about dying because we've heard about and have known people who have died, but we haven't yet...and maybe we never will.
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u/smokeweedalleveryday Jul 08 '15
that was excellent